[dpdk-dev] doc: update device options in multi process

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Varghese, Vipin May 11, 2018, 5:24 a.m. UTC
  Update information for blacklist and whitelist options for secondary
process to share same from primary process.

Signed-off-by: Vipin Varghese <vipin.varghese@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
  

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Van Haaren, Harry May 11, 2018, 9:27 a.m. UTC | #1
> From: Varghese, Vipin
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2018 6:24 AM
> To: dev@dpdk.org; Van Haaren, Harry <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>; Kovacevic,
> Marko <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
> Cc: Varghese, Vipin <vipin.varghese@intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: update device options in multi process
> 
> Update information for blacklist and whitelist options for secondary
> process to share same from primary process.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vipin Varghese <vipin.varghese@intel.com>

Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
  
Thomas Monjalon May 22, 2018, 9:14 p.m. UTC | #2
> > Update information for blacklist and whitelist options for secondary
> > process to share same from primary process.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Vipin Varghese <vipin.varghese@intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>

Applied, thanks
  

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diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst
index 9059679..e9ebeeb 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@  after a primary process has already configured the hugepage shared memory for th
 
     Secondary processes should run alongside primary process with same DPDK version.
 
+    Secondary processes which requires access to physical devices in Primary process, must
+    be passed with the same whitelist and blacklist options.
+
 To support these two process types, and other multi-process setups described later,
 two additional command-line parameters are available to the EAL: